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by saghm 4mo ago
To clarify, I'm not talking specifically about io_uring but (multithreaded) async concurrency models in general. The explanation needs to be imprecise because not all of them work the same way, so it's impossible to say anything c
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by saghm 4mo ago
Yeah, the explanation that I've usually heard for this sort of thing is that it's intended to get back CPU time that's lost when too many system threads are blocking to keep something on every core even during I/O (or pa
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm not I understand why you're asking me whether I think the phenomenon of intellectual property laws being enforced in a way that unfairly benefits the wealthy exists. Of course I do, that's why I brought it up in the first
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by saghm 4mo ago
Maybe their dad only started saying this in the past three decades
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by saghm 4mo ago
Sure, as long as your OS is written in Rust (and doesn't use any unsafe)
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by saghm 4mo ago
I think it's more the principle. CPU firmware upgrades are not supposed be used for things like this, and if it became normal to use them for removing features, it would just lead to people not updating the firmware at all, and that&#x
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by saghm 4mo ago
None of that is a good rationale for patching the firmware to retroactively remove things from devices that were sold years ago. It's an abuse of a mechanism that's ostensibly meant for security fixes and maybe perf improvements,
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Stdlib usage is full of it, and it must be by definition of what it does. In the same way you can't have a useful program without some side effects, so also you can't really have a useful program without doing some level of I
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Google and Apple are useless for dmca unless you have a court order. This is especially egregious in Google's case given how trigger happy they are with pulling YouTube videos with a simple claim that something is infringing. I gu
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by saghm 4mo ago
"You can simply decline the conversation" and "it's not a big deal" are entirely subjective and based on the assumption that being extroverted is normal. Your rules of etiquette are that I need to go out of my way t
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by saghm 4mo ago
> But who outside of Google is running exclusively ChromeOS? I think Chromebooks are pretty common in school settings
732.
by saghm 4mo ago
> It's understandable that organizations want to require chrome for their employees to access their workspace in the interest of security, but it's not the default. Can you elaborate on why you think that Firefox is inherently
733.
by saghm 4mo ago
There's no contradiction here; it's totally possible for a company to make a feature configurable so that it doesn't block their competitors but also intentionally design and market it in a way that's misleading in ways
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by saghm 4mo ago
Good old whataboutism, obviously any administration that does at least one bad thing is equally corrupt. There's no possible reason to distinguish between how corrupt two different corrupt actions are or how many of them there are beyo
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by saghm 4mo ago
If you legitimately think that anyone who isn't extroverted in the same way as you is "unwell", I feel like you could use a lot of therapy yourself.
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by saghm 4mo ago
The place between my house and all of the other places I might need to go? Is your argument that people should just not go to the doctor or get driver's licenses unless they're willing to interact with every stranger who wants to
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by saghm 4mo ago
I think your attitude that going out in public is tacitly opting into interactions with strangers is a much more gross way to operate. The assumption that it's easy to just politely decline a conversation (and that not doing so in the
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by saghm 4mo ago
The point is that just because two things are used to avoid a third thing doesn't mean they're comparable when one of them is much less disruptive to those around you. There are people who don't think being forced into intera
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by saghm 4mo ago
Oh interesting, I'm not sure why I misunderstood that. Thanks for the correction!
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by saghm 4mo ago
Sure, in the same way that taking a leak in a toilet and taking a leak on the sidewalk are both ways of avoiding wetting your pants
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by saghm 4mo ago
Sure, but when the only reason I had those random moments with strangers were because they wanted them, and refusing to engage is considered "rude", I'd argue that it already was just someone else's "my" experi
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by saghm 4mo ago
As someone who is often pretty introverted, I feel like wireless earbuds just give me a way to act like I already wanted to with less friction. I pretty rarely want to talk to random strangers, not because I have anything against them, but
743.
by saghm 4mo ago
To be fair, most of those companies had those phases with administrations that were a lot less petty than the current one.
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by saghm 4mo ago
I think I agree with your points on tooling. As much as I'd prefer that new projects used Rust instead of C++, I don't have any illusions that C++ isn't going anywhere any time soon, and any sort of static checking that gets
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by saghm 4mo ago
I've also never heard this before. The closest I can think of is fuzzing test suites used to find panics in various crates, but that's neither machine learning nor in the compiler itself. I know that datalog is used for the borrow
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by saghm 4mo ago
It's not unreasonable to think that the level of acceptable risk for "the language model parsed my text wrong" is in average much higher than "the medical model misdiagnosed my condition". You can probably come up w
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by saghm 4mo ago
I did try this, and it was pretty hit-or-miss still. I even went as far as configuring context for Zed to inject into all conversations saying stuff like "If you need to read a file, call read_file NOW. Do not say you will read it&quot
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm probably somewhat adjacent to you. I would be happy to pay, but I just don't want to pay any of the companies that are actually offering things right now. I had the $20/month sub for Claude for a couple months, until one
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by saghm 4mo ago
This is basically my experience as well. I have a moderately recent but high spec desktop (Radeon 6900 XT with 16 GB VRAM, Ryzen 9 7900X 12-core, 64 GB system RAM), and I tried out some recommended models with ollama a month or two ago. Any
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by saghm 4mo ago
Sure, not caring about contributing to Linux in practice is valid, but at that point it would make more sense just not to argue about the aptness of C++ for integrating into Linux at all then if no one ever legitimately tried. My point is t

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